4DSOUND: A Retrospective is a joint production by the Spatial Sound Institute Budapest and MONOM Berlin and will be presented at MIRA Berlin on May 5th as part of the festival program. The exhibition provides a present perfect of spatial sound - the coming-of-age of a creative discipline that opens up ways of expressing and communicating with sound that were not possible before. It seeks to unveil something of the beauty and complexity of this new medium, that we are only on the verge of starting to understand. Join us to experience 15 selected spatial works from artists such as Murcof, Peter Van Hoesen and 4DSOUND's own creative director John Connell. Stay and enjoy new live world premieres by Eomac & WaqWaq Kingdom and spend an evening immersing yourself in 4DSOUND. Tickets available: https://mirafestivalberlin.com/tickets/

Last chance for reduced early-bird registration for the month long workshop on Ecoacoustics!! During the course of the workshop each participant will create and perform a piece for the 4DSOUND system and receive guidance from visual artist Florence To & Antoine Bertin, founder of sound-driven creative studio Sound Anything. More info here: http://schoolofma.org/ecoacoustics/ School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe How do we listen with all the noise in the age of information? How are our hearing senses linked to our emotional experiences? How can we better understand the relationship between humans and our environments… SCHOOLOFMA.ORG

Full April program now announced at MONOM. 🛎️ Tickets on sale!!! http://snip.ly/dvliw 12.04.18 & 13.04.18 Felix Krone & ENA (Dystopian, 7even Recordings) James Ginzburg (Emptyset) https://www.facebook.com/events/166676077467640/ 20.04.18 & 21.04.18 Puce Mary (posh isolation, Ideal Recordings) Abyss X (Danse Noire, Halcyon Veil) https://www.facebook.com/events/2106192849615778/ 30.04.18 Raster.Index Frank Bretschneider https://www.facebook.com/events/346765985732863/ ____ At MONOM, artists work outside of the limiting frameworks of genre and style and have no set limits on their conceptual ambition. Our growing family is sketching the outline of genres emerging. Each artist will take part in a residency working in-depth with the 4DSOUND spatial instrument to compose a 3D composition especially for the night. What will unfold is unknown - but when working with a fully omnidirectional sound environment where sound can be experienced in an unlimited spatial continuum - anything is possible.

Call for participants!! Rona Geffen and the Spatial Sound Institute seek participants for an experiment on physiological reception and mental experience of sound. The experiment will take place from March 24 - 28th at MONOM in 4DSOUND - an advanced immersive sound system where the listener is experiencing sound in multiple dimensions. The study will involve psychological questionnaires and monitoring participants’ vital signs and brain activity using EEG (an unobtrusive brainwave measure). More info about qualifications and how to apply can be found in the event page below.

It's back and we're thrilled to take part in this year's MIRA Berlin Digital Arts Festival. On the 5th of May MONOM will be presenting a collection of sound installations and two new spatial compositions developed especially for the occasion by WaqWaq Kingdom and Eomac. The festival line up also includes the likes of Aïsha Devi and Yves Tumor - two of our favorite artists that we highly recommend you don't miss! Purchase your early bird tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/events/175856479704844/

GROOVE-Magazin selects GAIKA's performance at MONOM as one of their top five CTM Festival highlights this year. 🔥🏆🙇https://groove.de/2018/02/22/ctm-festival-2018-unbehagen-und-underground-review/

Tick Tock - early bird enrollment ends soon! 'Ecoacoustics: Sound-driven Spatial Experience Design" is a month long intensive workshop organized in cooperation with the brilliant team at School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe and is a coveted opportunity to explore the combined elements of spatial recording, virtual reality sound design, audio installation practices and develop and perform an immersive experience using the unique 4DSOUND system. Led by artists Florence To and Antoine Bertin, participants will walk away with practical skills in the areas of: - Binaural recording techniques and 360 audio mixing -Interactive sound design with basic MaxMSP skills -Tactile audio: Vibrations sensed by the human body -Multiple channel audio techniques -Recording and Mixing of original compositions and more! This workshop is geared toward artists, designers, musicians, and anyone interested in experimenting with tactile materials, and the possibilities of storytelling with perception and spatial sound. There are no formal prerequisites. Everyone interested is encouraged to apply! Limited capacity available. Learn more about the school and program here: http://schoolofma.org/ecoacoustics/

For those who experienced Russian sound artist and researcher IOANN perform as part of the CTM Festival programme Transcend the Turmoil, and even for those who weren't able to attend, this article by artist Ivan Sapozhkov and curator Paul Oomen is a fascinating exploration into the formal ideas behind the work. Since November 2016, Russian sound artist and researcher IOANN has been artist-in-residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. "Imagining the Hyperspace" consists of nine projections of particular geometric structures in sound - from the most elementary concepts of geometry such as a point, line and triangle, to highly complex ones such as the tesseract and 24-cell octaplex. This article was originally published accompanying the live presentations by the artist of ‘Imagining the Hyperspace’ from Tuesday 30th January - Friday 2nd February 2018 as part of the programme Transcend the Turmoil, a joint production by CTM Festival, MONOM and the Spatial Sound Institute. You can read the article in full here: http://bit.ly/2CqVYrx

"We’re ushered into the sleeping room at about 11.45pm, and at first sight, all my worries subside. The huge industrial room is shrouded in a purple haze with 70 mattresses elevated on a platform, along with a fresh pillows and neatly folded blankets. As I lie on my bed for the night and stare up towards the ceiling, I’m reminded of Anthony McCall’s description of haze as “ambient sea-mist” and I’m soothed by the enveloping violet cloud that means I can’t really see or be seen" — sleek magazine

On April 30, high-profile German electronic record label and artistic platform Raster will be presenting Raster INDEX — a showcase night at Funkhaus Berlin. We are honoured to be kicking the night off at MONOM spatial sound studio where label co-founder Frank Bretschneider will present an exclusive performance in 4DSOUND. Our bar opens at 6pm, show starts at 8pm. Moving to Studio 1 in the Funkhaus Berlin, Atom™ will present his new AV live set "Deep State", followed by an experimental AV live set by Dasha Rush and finally the premiere of label head Byetone's new AV show, featuring a special guest. The evening will continue in the Foyer with live sets by Robert Lippok (with a new album coming this spring), Grischa Lichtenberger and »raster« resident DJ Mieko Suzuki. A small number of Early Bird Kombi-Tickets for MONOM + Studio 1 are available here: http://bit.ly/2sl1Fb5

"The absence of visible focus points was unsettling, betraying the collective habit of facing towards the performer. In the end, it was 4DSOUND itself that generated and contained the artwork, cultivating a different listening experience and allowing visitors to wonder about all of the various fictional universes that could be created at MONOM" — Berlin Art Link